Abstract:
This study is being carried to assess the mid-point (2000-2007) achievement of goal one(eradicate extreme poverty and hunger) of Millennium Development Goal in Nigeria. The research is guided by three Hypotheses which are drawn from the Problem statements and objectives of the study. Related literatures are reviewed in the study. The Data are sourced from both the Primary and Secondary sources available. The questionnaire is the only source of primary data collection. The questionnaire was drawn from the research objectives. Simple statistical methods such as table and percentage are used to analyze data while simple percentage is used to test the three Hypotheses formulated. The findings indicated that the poverty rate of Nigeria before 2000 and afterwards have been on the increase in spite of the current Millennium Development Goal whose goal one is, to eradicate poverty and hunger before 2015. This study equally goes further to discovering major obstacles militating against effective poverty reduction such as: corruption, bad leadership, improper and inadequate planning, non-involvement of the main beneficiaries(poor masses). Finally, some recommendations and conclusion are made to ratify the problems identified.
